Merry Christmas From The Staff at Dream Pod 9

Its the Holiday Season again and time for our Annual Xmas Gift. This year our Sculptor, Phil is showing some love for our Utopia fans with a Chibi N-Kidu Drone as this years Xmas gift. The Xmas 2017 Chibi N-Kidu will be automatically added into all DP9 Online Store Orders from now to the morning of January 3rd, 2018 that are over $100 USD before any shipping and taxes. Limit 1 free Chibi N-Kidu per customer.

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With all the HGB Kickstarter work our scheduled release last Friday of more Jovian Wars resin spaceships got forgotten. We have now added the 5 promised ships (Corsair & Intrepid for Jovian and Hydra, Chin, & Detroit for CEGA) to the DP9 Online Store along with any new resin habitat or special sections for them. Here is a link to their page for those interested and we also have two great starter packages there as well.http://store.dp9.com/index.php…

Seven ships for the Jovian Faction (Alexander, Majestic, & remaster Valiant, Forge, Ypres, Corsair & Intrepid) and Eight ships for the CEGA faction (Constantinople, Birmingham, & remastered Poseidon, Narwal, Hammerhead, Hydra, Chin, & Detroit) are now available. Attached to the post are photos of the assembled Jovian and CEGA resin spaceship miniatures available now. If you want to checkout the game we have a free to download Beta Rules ebook available on DriveThruRPG at the following link.http://www.drivethrurpg.com/…/Jovian-Wars--Alpha-Playtest-R…

We plan to release the remaining ships on December 22nd, 2017, just before Christmas. They include the new Lennox & Gagarin and remastered Athena, Javelin, & Thunderbolt for Jovian. Plus the new Appalachian, Charon, & Icarus and remastered Bricriu, Hachiman, Tengu, & Uller for CEGA, along with any new resin special sections for them.

We are planning a second Jovian Wars Kickstarter for sometime in early 2018 to get all the Venus faction spaceships and a few new exo squads produced. We hope for all your continued support, have a Happy Holidays!

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The Red Bull MkII Strider Custom Pack parts have been updated to include the stock Red Bull weapons (Twin Light Field Guns and MAAC), Arbalest package (VLRP/128), Sarisa (ATM), and Xyston (VHFG) variants found in the Blood Debt - Peace River Army List ebook. Along with the Coyote Strider which is now available as just the Walker Mode with 1 part walker legs or as just the Tank Mode with 1 part tank legs. These kits also include updated parts to make the stock Coyote (Light Rail Gun and MAAC), Vanguard package (VHAC), Pilum (AGM), Fusillade (SLC), and Wild Coyote/Alpha Dog (EW/Sat Uplink) variants found in the Blood Debt. The older Coyote Strider Custom Pack (DP9-9103) will still remain available with the multi-part legs that can be glued in either walker or vehicle tank mode for those who want to make their own custom leg poses. We have also added the Red Bull Very Heavy Field Gun and Anti-Tank Missile launcher turret parts and the Coyote's new SLC and VHAC parts to the custom parts section of the online store for those who want to upgrade an existing Red Bull or Coyote kit. The new Greyhound field command gear is now available on the Online Store as a single pack, including a random pose, either running or standing.

Phil finished up the Verder Tank parts today, here is a sneak peek at a few photos I took this morning. The Verder is based on the Aller Main Battle Tank and uses its main hull and treads to move the massive gun around.

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There's a list that I keep on my desk. It's not one piece of paper but a stack of post-it notes that I'm constantly adding to. It's become two piles because now I'm working on development of two games, Heavy Gear Blitz and Jovian Wars. The purpose of these list is to ensure that passing comments by players on the forums and messages to me do not get forgotten along with my own epiphanies and thoughts. There are rules comments and then there are rules observations. Questions about how the rules work and what their purpose is and that's where the concept of priority comes in.

The Gilgamesh Command Tank for Utopia is a model that has been in development for a long time. Originally there were a number of ideas starting as a regular tank, though slightly larger than normal to a kind of super Hittite, a kind of Armored Fighting Vehicle for the south, to a massive hover N-KIDU factory.

The design for the vehicle was always to be a command node for a N-KIDU based Utopian army. The idea was that a large tank could have a powerful communications system to coordinate a very large number of drones at one time. Originally the concept was more of an armored train pulling factory cars but that was discarded early both as a logistical problem for the rules as well as a nightmare for the cost of producing such a model. Read on for some thoughts about decisions we made regarding this centerpiece model.

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